This case study explores ethical issues with Canada’s immigration policy and the requirement of mandatory HIV testing of prospective immigrants. Attention is directed to the official immigration medical examination (IME) because it is a key site within the immigration system. The following four issues are raised: the differences in official and experiential knowledge claims about what activities occur (or not) in the IME when an applicant is diagnosed with HIV; the exceptional treatment of HIV within the Canadian immigration program; the discursive organization of the HIV testing policy; and, the inadequacies with how specific practices are enacted in the processing of immigration applications made by people living with HIV.

This article seeks to explain how and why groups and networks of undocumented migrants mobilizing in Berlin, Montréal, and Paris since the beginning of the 2000s construct different types of claims. The authors explore the ...

Analyses of trade quotas typically assume that the quota restricts the flow of
some nondurable good. Many real-world quotas, however, restrict the stock of durable
imports. We consider the cases where (1) anyone is free ...

In this article, we demonstrate that the collective actions of undocumented migrants possess similar symbolic dimensions, even if the contexts of their actions differ. We explain this finding by focusing on the power ...